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Sat 07 Jul 2008Post-Lisbon Ireland's EU past is truly a foreign land
INSIDE POLITICS:Ireland has lived in a cocoon in the wake of Lisbon, with few prepared to spell out the consequences, writes Mark Hennessy.
IN HIS darkest moments after the Lisbon Treaty referendum defeat, Taoiseach Brian Cowen must have prayed that voters would, in time, suffer the regrets usual with a hangover. Voters would wake up, understand the significance of their decision and repent, or, at least, thrice deny that they had had anything to do with it, and blame others.
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